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Oklahoma Sooners 2026 QB Commit Jaden O'Neal Dishes on Arbuckle, Jr Day Weekend, And Recruiting! · Sooner or Later Sports

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Speaker 1: What was good? Sooner Nation, we got a special interview
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Speaker 1: for you all. Twenty twenty six quarterback commit Jade O'Neill
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Speaker 1: got him here with me and Coop. We want to
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Speaker 1: talk about this Junior weekend. So make sure you hit
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Speaker 1: rate us review as if you're listening, give us five stars. Jaden,
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Speaker 1: talk to me, man, how you doing on this beautiful day?
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Speaker 2: Can't complain blessed to be here, you know, I just
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Speaker 2: honestly can't complain. I'm doing good. My family's good, So
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Speaker 2: I'm just glad to be here.
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Speaker 1: That's good. That's and that's something that you know, with
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Speaker 1: everything that's happening out there in California. What now, we're
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Speaker 1: happy to see that you and the family are well
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Speaker 1: and you know, excited about the future. So hey, you
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Speaker 1: were here in Norman this past weekend, got a chance
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Speaker 1: to kick it for Junior weekend. You met some you know,
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Speaker 1: some of the recruits in your class, some of them
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Speaker 1: in the older class, I mean the younger class, you know,
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Speaker 1: the twenty sevens or whatnot. They're pulled up. Talk to
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Speaker 1: me about the weekend festivities. Man, how did it feel
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Speaker 1: coming back to normany.
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Speaker 2: Coming back home, you know, definitely, that's something that's just
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Speaker 2: kind of welcomed me, something that's warm. To be able
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Speaker 2: to talk with the Culture staff, you know, just to
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Speaker 2: kind of rebase myself, be able to you know, just
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Speaker 2: bring my family out there and be able to, uh,
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Speaker 2: you know, just stay in contact with them, you know,
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Speaker 2: make sure because you know, there was a change with
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Speaker 2: the culture staff, so we're you know, just regroup, you knows,
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Speaker 2: and be able to speak with them again.
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Speaker 3: You know, got to see you know, some of my
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Speaker 3: guys that I.
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Speaker 2: Know, Jabari and that they ultimately know a couple of
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Speaker 2: you know names out there, so Kaya Jones, Mason James.
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Speaker 3: So it was good being able to see them.
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Speaker 1: Good stuff.
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Speaker 3: Definitely.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you roll in Oklahoma. It's now recruiting season ticks up.
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Speaker 4: Season's over the the you know, the staff is getting
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Speaker 4: after the twenty sixth year you was the quarterback. This
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Speaker 4: is your your kind of your time to shine, are
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Speaker 4: you know, kind of curating class of guys that you
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Speaker 4: want around yourself? Tell me about that, how how does
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Speaker 4: how do you take that on as a as a
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Speaker 4: as a quarterback and as as an athlete? I mean,
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Speaker 4: is that something that you find pretty easy? Is it
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Speaker 4: something you're going to have to make some adjustments for yourself?
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Speaker 2: Not really, no adjustments needed, just to be able to
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Speaker 2: be myself while I'm talking to these guys. Just be
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Speaker 2: kind of natural with it. I like, the more that
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Speaker 2: you feel that you're selling them, the kind of less
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Speaker 2: you know, author the authentic you know, behavior is just
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Speaker 2: kind of weird. You know, you just want to be
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Speaker 2: able to be nice and flood you know with some
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Speaker 2: of these athletes because you know, some of these guys
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Speaker 2: have a wide broad of like options and opportunity and
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Speaker 2: they want to just really go to the place that
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Speaker 2: feels like home.
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Speaker 3: So that's like kind of my approach, you know to
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Speaker 3: recruiting these guys.
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Speaker 1: Which I like because authenticity is critical to a lot
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Speaker 1: of these kids. As you mentioned, a lot of them
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Speaker 1: got offers from a lot of big programs around the country.
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Speaker 1: So we're not we're not going after just any We're
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Speaker 1: going for you know, the top, the top of the top.
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Speaker 1: So we know that, as you mentioned, authenticity is critical
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Speaker 1: with that. So when it comes to like talking to
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Speaker 1: some of these recruits and you know, talking about the
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Speaker 1: way that you your style of play, how does how
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Speaker 1: how have they received you as a quarterback and as
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Speaker 1: the leader of this class so far?
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Speaker 2: They see me as somebody based off of the feeling
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Speaker 2: kind of just like my play style, somebody who's go
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Speaker 2: you know, but they you know, shoulder into somebody, you know,
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Speaker 2: no matter that, like what the circumstances is, I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: try to just make sure, like I put the team first,
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Speaker 2: so you know, whenever I'm trying to recruit these guys,
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Speaker 2: I kind of just make sure like you know, they
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Speaker 2: feel wanted and you know, fill at home, you know,
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Speaker 2: and also I kind of see like what their playing
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Speaker 2: style is and what the offense is currently. You know,
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Speaker 2: they like to throw the ball. So I'm a past
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Speaker 2: first kind of guy. So that's kind of it, sir.
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Speaker 4: Definitely you you you you become the host now being
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Speaker 4: the quarterback in that room. What's what's what's the first
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Speaker 4: thing you're talking authenticity? What's the first thing that you
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Speaker 4: bring up to some of the recruits with you. Is
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Speaker 4: it the family atmosphere? Is it just the vision? What's
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Speaker 4: the thing that you like to bring up first.
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Speaker 2: When I'm first talking to these guys, I kind of
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Speaker 2: bring up you know, do you like, do you see
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Speaker 2: yourself being here? You got to envision yourself actually being there.
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Speaker 2: If you're just there, if you don't actually feel like
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Speaker 2: you can be in the system offense, that's something that
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Speaker 2: that I do ask. Another thing I do ask is
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Speaker 2: you know, do you feel you know wanted you know,
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Speaker 2: if if if, if you're a recruiting if you don't
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Speaker 2: feel want somebody coaching staff, you're just not going to
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Speaker 2: be able to, you know, be able to have a relationship,
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Speaker 2: be able to walk into the facilities with other guys,
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Speaker 2: be able to just kind of you know, focus like
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Speaker 2: the focus is just not gonna be there.
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Speaker 3: So that's kind of some of the few things I
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Speaker 3: talked about with.
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Speaker 1: Then I like that. I like that, And so you
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Speaker 1: know that Oklahoma's goal right now, especially Britainvinles, ever since
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Speaker 1: he came back to the Sooners has been and what
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Speaker 1: we call the Okay prep agenda as in their trying
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Speaker 1: their hardest to keep the local talent local as well
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Speaker 1: as broadened out to great towns like yourself in California,
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Speaker 1: players in Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, et cetera. So on.
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Speaker 1: But there were some pictures posted on the social media's
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Speaker 1: they got everybody a little excited. It was yourself, Caden Jones,
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Speaker 1: who is a legacy because his father Keiwan Jones played
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Speaker 1: running back at Oklahoma in the early two thousands, as
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Speaker 1: well as Mason James there in uh Norman North the
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Speaker 1: Wide Receiver. Talk to me about your relationship with them
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Speaker 1: and how exciting would it be to have them to
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Speaker 1: join the fold with you.
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Speaker 2: You know, seeing those guys again is just the relationship
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Speaker 2: you know has been constantly rising, seeing them, you know,
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Speaker 2: throughout like certain camps on social media as well, being
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Speaker 2: able to contact them.
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Speaker 3: Is this something that's constantly growing.
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Speaker 2: I feel like the connection like between the three of
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Speaker 2: us and a couple more other players of course, is
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Speaker 2: constantly growing. You know, having those local guys out there,
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Speaker 2: you know, having a hometown school like that, that's just
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Speaker 2: something that you kind of want to bring up, especially
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Speaker 2: as a commitment. So, you know, dealing with those guys
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Speaker 2: that are you know, very down to earth, humble people,
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Speaker 2: and I just try to try to real them in
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Speaker 2: you know, of course, like you said, authentic, I want
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Speaker 2: to be very authentic like whenever I'm talking to these guys,
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Speaker 2: because they are dealing with a hometown school.
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Speaker 3: Some kids may want to like, you know, leave the
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Speaker 3: state or whatnot.
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Speaker 2: But I feel like, you know, when these kids are,
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Speaker 2: you know, dealing with a hometown school, and I feel
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Speaker 2: like they get that love a lot much closer.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And to add to that real quick, Kateen Jones,
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Speaker 1: was you. I remember you brought had convinced him to
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Speaker 1: come down there to the Brint Vnables camp when you
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Speaker 1: were in town last summer, right, So it's obvious you
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Speaker 1: two have a pretty solid relationship. And I know that
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Speaker 1: Kadi is one that a lot of teams are really
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Speaker 1: going after. What's yours? What was your message to him?
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Speaker 1: Not not all the details. I mean, I know y'all
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Speaker 1: be chopping up as friends and everything, but what are
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Speaker 1: you trying to instill in him to make him follow
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Speaker 1: that legacy and join you at Oklahoma?
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Speaker 3: For sure?
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Speaker 2: When I had, you know, brought him to the camp,
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Speaker 2: I just wanted to kind of just you know, visualize
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Speaker 2: like the connection, seeing what the was like, just to
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Speaker 2: be able to see and you know what the what
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Speaker 2: the future you know sooner is going to look like.
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Speaker 2: Like you said, you know, some of the things I
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Speaker 2: try to just you know, just talk to them about
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Speaker 2: you know, that's like not not so private. It's just
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Speaker 2: seem like the connection, the connections, they're like just a
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Speaker 2: vibe between you know, him and I because it's gonna
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Speaker 2: be us in the backfield, you know possibly, so you know,
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Speaker 2: just kind of just having that connection and that ability
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Speaker 2: to communicate with them. There's something I kind of you know, prioritize.
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Speaker 1: Sweet sweet so just saw a few minutes ago.
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Speaker 4: You know that's now list season talk season, random stats
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Speaker 4: season on the on the Twitter app shows Oklahoma tied
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Speaker 4: number one for the most wins with a couple of
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Speaker 4: other teams in the past twenty five years. When you're
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Speaker 4: having these conversations with guys, what's the balance between like
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Speaker 4: just the history of the program and then kind of
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Speaker 4: what you want to do and taking this team going
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Speaker 4: forward in the future, Like do you have a balance
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Speaker 4: with that? Do you talk about the past at all?
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Speaker 4: Or is it just hey, you know, this is what
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Speaker 4: we're going to be doing.
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Speaker 2: I try to focus on the president. I kind of
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Speaker 2: do kind of use the pass to my leverage. You know,
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Speaker 2: there are you know, one of the most winning you
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Speaker 2: know programs is World War Two. So to be able
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Speaker 2: to kind of bring that up with people. It's something
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Speaker 2: I kind of kind of incorporated a little bit. But
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Speaker 2: if not, I try to focus on the president, you know,
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Speaker 2: try to make them see what's going on now, because
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Speaker 2: you know, the future is constantly like moving fast, and
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Speaker 2: you want to you don't want to harp too much
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Speaker 2: on the past, but you definitely do want to give
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Speaker 2: you know, those those those guys that was in the building,
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Speaker 2: you know credit, you know, to be able to thank
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Speaker 2: Oklahoma up her name.
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Speaker 1: So love love that all right. So we had a
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Speaker 1: commitment that just dropped down the line Daniel Odam from
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Speaker 1: Saint John's Bosco. If you posted a picture of you
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Speaker 1: both out there, it appears that you know, y'all have
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Speaker 1: some ties from from childhood. Tell us about your relationship
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Speaker 1: with Daniel and did you know about him going to
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Speaker 1: commit before he dropped the line all of us?
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Speaker 2: Actually no, I did not know he was gonna drop
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Speaker 2: his commit I did actually know while we were in
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Speaker 2: the airport. You know, oh, you've got to be liking
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Speaker 2: your top five school, just our top ten of course,
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Speaker 2: just because of like the people that you know that's
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Speaker 2: in the building. He said, yeah, man, I'm gonna probably
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Speaker 2: drop that, you know, top ten, you know, so I
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Speaker 2: wasn't really expecting Amm. It was just something that was
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Speaker 2: like surprising with me. So yeah, so you know, to
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Speaker 2: to see that, you know, you got another top elite
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Speaker 2: wide receiver is I mean, it only makes a connection
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Speaker 2: and do them that much better, you know, knowing that
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Speaker 2: we were once kids who played on the team called
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Speaker 2: Nation Titans. Of course, brother Steve shout out to you.
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Speaker 2: You know, it was just a yeah, it was just
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Speaker 2: a team that we all played for a bunch of
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Speaker 2: young kids, a couple of you know, local kids that
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Speaker 2: are still you know top You know a lot of
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Speaker 2: people don't notice, but with Nation Titans, you know, a
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Speaker 2: lot of talent has come out of there. So yeah,
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Speaker 2: O them being one of them, a few others as well.
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Speaker 2: So you know, we were dealing with each other, you know,
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Speaker 2: ever since we were young. So just to just be
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Speaker 2: able to see him, you know, constantly growth, you know,
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Speaker 2: now he's committed with me, of course, it is something special.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Have you have you gone in and like done some
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Speaker 4: film study kind of see like what he does good?
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Speaker 4: What he does well you know on the field.
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Speaker 2: Yet I mean he goes to school down the street
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Speaker 2: from me, so I kind of.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes there him oft and right.
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Speaker 3: He bell flyer and one of the top programs.
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Speaker 2: So to be able to you know, see him weekly
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Speaker 2: constantly going against like you know, tuk toier, you know, competition,
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Speaker 2: you know, just see what he does on those stages
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Speaker 2: and he always rices, you know.
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Speaker 3: To the occasion.
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Speaker 1: All Right, who's taller you or him?
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Speaker 2: I think Daniel Gunnon, But like I probably said, he's
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Speaker 2: really like I think he's listed at six ' one,
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Speaker 2: but I feel like he's really like six three or
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Speaker 2: six four.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think he's listed six Yes, one place
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Speaker 1: at sixty one one has him six to two, So
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Speaker 1: you think he's actually taller than that.
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Speaker 3: Now I think he's sixteen.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, because you're like legitimate in your size.
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Speaker 1: That's the next team. So that's actually quite an interest.
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Speaker 1: Adding to that, you had Jabari Brady from down there
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Speaker 1: in Florida, the six three athlete Fort Lauderdale or whatnot.
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Speaker 1: Tell me about that. I mean, I see the pictures
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Speaker 1: with you three together. You know, what's been your message
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Speaker 1: to him? Has it been a similar message to him
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Speaker 1: about joining and being connected with the team or if
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Speaker 1: you get him with the a man, just you need
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Speaker 1: to just commit and be right with your boy.
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Speaker 2: Nahna, I'd like to get people like, you know, the
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Speaker 2: ability to decide on their own not to make the course.
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Speaker 2: We're already kind of like having a good connection right
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Speaker 2: now because I'm on the seven doll seventeen South Florida
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Speaker 2: Express with him, so we're kind of already.
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Speaker 3: Kind of building that.
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Speaker 2: But you know, if oh, you does come into the
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Speaker 2: play of a commitment, man, I'd be even more you know,
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Speaker 2: like more awesome for the for the offseason. But I'm
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Speaker 2: just kind of you know, talking with his mom and
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Speaker 2: you know, his family and sself and just seeing you know,
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Speaker 2: is oh, you're the best option and if not, just
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Speaker 2: to be able to continue like that relationship because you
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Speaker 2: never know, he might spin back for a chancefer port, Okay,
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Speaker 2: you just never know, so true.
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Speaker 1: You may see in the field too, So yeah, you
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Speaker 1: know that. That's also what the other thing make y'all
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Speaker 1: end up seeing each other on the same team. So
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Speaker 1: that's a very good point of keeping a relationship going.
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Speaker 4: You get some of these defenders coming in with you,
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Speaker 4: and you know, if you think yourself down the line,
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Speaker 4: like these are guys you're going to be facing against
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Speaker 4: like you obviously want like great defenders on the team,
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Speaker 4: but then at the same time you got to think of, like, man,
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna be going about, you know with these guys
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Speaker 4: in practice. Were there were there guys that you were
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Speaker 4: just kind of like looking at their size when when
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Speaker 4: they were in that you're like, kidding, it's gracious. That
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Speaker 4: would be a guy that I definitely want playing on
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Speaker 4: the other side of the ball.
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Speaker 3: At Oklahoma, it was a couple. I think it was
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Speaker 3: like a big six four. I think a being for Bema.
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Speaker 2: I forgot his name, but I think I did got
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Speaker 2: a chance to speak when I think I dapped them up.
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Speaker 3: But I think that was one dude. I think, I
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Speaker 3: think what all American linemen. I think, so he was there.
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Speaker 2: I forgot his name, but I just seen I think
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Speaker 2: it's being like that, yeah.
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Speaker 1: B yeah, b yeah, the big ticket Yeah yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: I saw him in person. The Monster.
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Speaker 2: I think he's like seven. It's crazy, but yeah, I
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Speaker 2: mean just going that. You know, you have the tradition
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Speaker 2: of having, you know, a good defensive player. That's just
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Speaker 2: kind of boots your confidence as a quarterback, knowing that
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Speaker 2: the defense is going to get you the ball put
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Speaker 2: you in good you know, positions to like, you know,
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Speaker 2: scoring someone, So I.
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Speaker 1: Like that, like that. So you mentioned this at the
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Speaker 1: beginning of the video. We're talking to j O'Neill. Oh
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Speaker 1: you commit quarterback, you know in the twenty sixth class.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned this at the beginning, you know, staff change.
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Speaker 1: You know, I know you all committed underneath Seth Latreille
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Speaker 1: at the time when he was here, and then I've
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Speaker 1: been our buckles has come in. I know that you've
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Speaker 1: got a chance to finally talk to him and you know,
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Speaker 1: probably even look at some you know, some film and
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Speaker 1: understanding with his play style. How do you feel like
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Speaker 1: his style of play fits you know, the game that
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Speaker 1: you're your strengths when it comes to your game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course our buckle, you know, topping this class
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Speaker 2: of course to be able to develop he developed camp
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Speaker 2: Ward of course very oh yeah. So yeah, just to
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Speaker 2: kind of see his offense. When I was in office,
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Speaker 2: we were able to watch film and just being able
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Speaker 2: to see how he has some of the similar concept
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Speaker 2: that you see in the SEC. He's kind of bringing
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Speaker 2: that West Coast office now in the SEC and just
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Speaker 2: seeing how it develops, you know, certain kind of players.
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Speaker 2: He knows how to use their strength and weaknesses. That's
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Speaker 2: something I always kind of just rave about, just just
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Speaker 2: like just being able to say that offense of coordinators,
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Speaker 2: you know, knowing how to use your strengthen weaknesses.
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Speaker 3: If they don't know how to you know, use you,
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Speaker 3: it's with no point of being in that office.
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Speaker 1: So it's very fair.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so he knows how to use you know,
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Speaker 2: different kind of athletes ships to their strength and weaknesses,
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Speaker 2: which I love seeing like in the film.
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Speaker 4: Definitely, definitely, you know our Buckle coming down here, coming home,
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Speaker 4: you get a chance to have the conversations with him.
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Speaker 4: What are the things that stand out about Ben R.
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Speaker 4: Buckle the most? When you were down with him?
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Speaker 2: When I was down with him. You know, he's very relatable.
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Speaker 2: You know, he's not like super older or not. I
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Speaker 2: think he's twenty nine or thirty years old, somewhere around
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Speaker 2: the age.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's young.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's super young. So he's very relatable. He has
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Speaker 2: a young coaching staff around him, so you know, the
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Speaker 2: people that he hasn't around him. It's something I can
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Speaker 2: relate to. He's also from like he's coming from the
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Speaker 2: West Coast, so he kind of understands our culture a
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Speaker 2: little bit where it comes out of like throwing the ball,
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Speaker 2: just like the quarterbacks that we have.
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Speaker 3: Of course out hear and yeah, that's like it.
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Speaker 1: So did you all get to see the team practice
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Speaker 1: while you were down there or watch him train while
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Speaker 1: you were there for the junior weekend?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, coach Smack was getting the boys right. They
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Speaker 2: had all kinds of work. It was bringing it back
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Speaker 2: they had it was throwing balls on the wall. So
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Speaker 2: you know, it was good to seeing them like workout
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Speaker 2: in the morning.
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Speaker 3: Good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know Schmidy is infamous for putting you to work,
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Speaker 1: and so he gets your body right. Every player that
15:46
Speaker 1: has ever played for him, And I know that the
15:48
Speaker 1: NFL they actually know him by name and they look
15:51
Speaker 1: for some of his guys and then they're going to
15:53
Speaker 1: be in the right shape and pushing forward. But since
15:56
Speaker 1: you got to see a little bit of it, I
15:57
Speaker 1: saw you post the picture, you know, late last night
16:00
Speaker 1: you and Jeometi as standing next to each other. What
16:03
Speaker 1: was it like meeting Matier and getting to know him,
16:07
Speaker 1: because you know, he had an interesting journey. He really
16:09
Speaker 1: wasn't heavily recruited, ending up up there at Washington stay,
16:12
Speaker 1: you know, been our buckle, got him and he's built
16:15
Speaker 1: him up over the last few years. What was it
16:17
Speaker 1: like getting to chop it up with him as far
16:19
Speaker 1: as you know, understanding his journey not only that but
16:23
Speaker 1: also that he's been with Ben for and this to
16:25
Speaker 1: be his third year now, and being able to learn
16:29
Speaker 1: cam Ward. What was it like getting to talk to Jeonmetir?
16:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, being able to talk with you know, geometerir very
16:38
Speaker 2: humble down the earth guy.
16:40
Speaker 3: He doesn't he's like.
16:41
Speaker 2: He's not a row rob guy, but he knows how
16:43
Speaker 2: to just put his head down and just you know,
16:44
Speaker 2: really just get to work. I feel like with his
16:47
Speaker 2: you know, his experience and you know, with the new
16:49
Speaker 2: resources that he has now, I feel like he'll be
16:51
Speaker 2: able to.
16:52
Speaker 3: Be you know successful like in SEC.
16:55
Speaker 2: You know, all the you know, big time players that
16:57
Speaker 2: he has around him, all the transfers, you know, being
17:00
Speaker 2: the highest rateed you know transfer quarterback in the portal.
17:03
Speaker 2: I feel like with the resource and the coaches af
17:05
Speaker 2: around um, I feel like he's been heis mc cannedy
17:08
Speaker 2: in my opinion.
17:09
Speaker 4: Okay, that's mc cannedy. You heard it here. I think
17:14
Speaker 4: you know he's he's in the top five as far
17:16
Speaker 4: as the odds just go from the get go, and
17:19
Speaker 4: so that I mean, that's some pressure, right a guy
17:22
Speaker 4: goes from Washington State. Let's just be honest, it's a
17:25
Speaker 4: little bit more psychotic around here when it comes to
17:27
Speaker 4: football than Washington State. But for you specifically just knowing that, like, man,
17:32
Speaker 4: that could be me someday, how do you keep those
17:35
Speaker 4: things kind of segmented between like put down and grind.
17:38
Speaker 4: But then also know that, like there's gonna be a
17:40
Speaker 4: big expectation because there's a bunch of statues outside the
17:43
Speaker 4: stadium which show that quarterback play here recently has been
17:46
Speaker 4: pretty good.
17:47
Speaker 2: That Sir Ken Moore like said it the best. Just
17:50
Speaker 2: putting that phone down, you know, just keeping the phone
17:53
Speaker 2: away from me. I feel like sometimes like we just
17:55
Speaker 2: need that dopamine rush to sometimes kind of see what
17:58
Speaker 2: people are saying, whether it be not negative or positive.
18:02
Speaker 2: You know, So just putting the phone down, just keeping
18:04
Speaker 2: you know, just keeping the main thing, like the main thing,
18:06
Speaker 2: and of course like changing the game. So maybe you
18:10
Speaker 2: don't like to see like the dollar you like, because
18:12
Speaker 2: you're always on your phone. But if not, if you
18:13
Speaker 2: just put your head down, keep the main thing, main thing,
18:16
Speaker 2: you know, same with your team.
18:18
Speaker 3: I feel like you should you should be successful.
18:22
Speaker 1: That's what's up. So you mentioned this talking to j O'Neill,
18:27
Speaker 1: commit twenty six class quarterback. You talked about going to
18:32
Speaker 1: the camps down there, and you had a team down
18:35
Speaker 1: in South Florida. So you play on seven on seven
18:39
Speaker 1: and you've been around a lot and and and literally
18:42
Speaker 1: I'm reading one article here from Tom Lloy about you
18:47
Speaker 1: and just your mechanics and stuff. What has it been
18:51
Speaker 1: like going to these camps now to be able to
18:53
Speaker 1: help up your stock number, may make sure that you
18:55
Speaker 1: can get goals to get you up in the five
18:57
Speaker 1: star status style. Because you've got the talent there, you
19:00
Speaker 1: should be there. But how is it been going into
19:03
Speaker 1: these camps and going to these combines over the last
19:06
Speaker 1: few months for.
19:07
Speaker 2: You, you know, it's just it's just something part of
19:11
Speaker 2: like my recruitment process. I definitely love, you know, just
19:15
Speaker 2: to be able to go around the country and see
19:16
Speaker 2: top talent is that it's something I look forward to.
19:19
Speaker 2: I'm always you know, competitive, you know, no matter what's
19:22
Speaker 2: throwing at me, I'm always trying to, you know, just
19:24
Speaker 2: be dominant, you know, and get up there at the top.
19:27
Speaker 2: So you know, I feel like my my skill has
19:29
Speaker 2: naturally risen just because like the competition I constantly see,
19:33
Speaker 2: you know, dealing with these top camps, you know, rivals,
19:35
Speaker 2: whether it be you know, Texas, the All American Bowl,
19:40
Speaker 2: you know, just seeing all these all these talents and
19:42
Speaker 2: you know, all the competition, I feel like it's just
19:45
Speaker 2: naturally in me to just like rise to the occasion.
19:47
Speaker 3: So so so.
19:52
Speaker 4: You say this, rising to the occasion just the thing
19:55
Speaker 4: that drives you, you know, just put the phone down
19:57
Speaker 4: and keep the main thing, the main thing. What are
19:59
Speaker 4: the main things for What are the main drivers for
20:01
Speaker 4: you to be a better not only just person, but
20:04
Speaker 4: better quarterback and a better football player.
20:08
Speaker 2: First off, just being coachable. Everything's not going to go
20:11
Speaker 2: your way. You're gonna make mistakes. So just to be
20:13
Speaker 2: able to you know, hear the culture, hears somebody who's
20:16
Speaker 2: done it before with the experience, to be able to
20:18
Speaker 2: tone it like their experience and their teachings and a
20:21
Speaker 2: display it. Another thing, keeping the main thing, the main
20:24
Speaker 2: thing is you know, not being caught up in you know, hype.
20:27
Speaker 2: You know, I feel like a lot of players get
20:29
Speaker 2: caught up in hype. I try to make sure I'm
20:31
Speaker 2: humble as possible here and there. Of course, if you
20:34
Speaker 2: do good, of course try to talk about it. But
20:35
Speaker 2: if not, to try to just put yourself, you know,
20:38
Speaker 2: just one step down so that you could kind of
20:40
Speaker 2: get a different you know, view or point of view,
20:42
Speaker 2: well you know what's in front of you. And lastly,
20:45
Speaker 2: just kind of not being caught up in social media.
20:47
Speaker 2: I know, that's like kind of another thing. I look up,
20:50
Speaker 2: you know, maybe you're going to the camp and you're
20:52
Speaker 2: seeing so and so is there so what I mean, shoot,
20:55
Speaker 2: you see it? Who I mean, it's competition at the
20:58
Speaker 2: end of the day. You know, as a levels rides
21:00
Speaker 2: college to the NFL, it's gonna be more and more competition.
21:03
Speaker 2: It's gonna be guys. I can throw the ball just
21:05
Speaker 2: as hard as you. But what are those little things
21:07
Speaker 2: that you kind of like put yourself you know ahead
21:09
Speaker 2: that just like separates you.
21:10
Speaker 3: So those are the some of the some of the
21:13
Speaker 3: stuff I kind of, you know, keep the main thing,
21:15
Speaker 3: the main thing like that.
21:16
Speaker 1: How did you feel when you won the most Outstanding
21:20
Speaker 1: Quarterback at that Navy National Combine? How did that feel?
21:24
Speaker 3: It felt really good?
21:26
Speaker 2: You know, just to kind of be able to, you know,
21:28
Speaker 2: get an award, an award or something that's just no
21:31
Speaker 2: matter what stays, it is, an award.
21:33
Speaker 3: Is like an award.
21:34
Speaker 2: So I went to that camp before they ended up
21:36
Speaker 2: giving to I think the Arkansas commit. I forgot his name,
21:39
Speaker 2: but they ended up giving a team last year, so
21:42
Speaker 2: as it gave me like more dry for this year
21:44
Speaker 2: coming up, so I was able to kind of go
21:46
Speaker 2: like a little bit harder, especially like with the talent
21:48
Speaker 2: that they had, you know around, I was able to,
21:51
Speaker 2: you know, just try to just be the best resident
21:52
Speaker 2: of myself.
21:53
Speaker 3: So I'm glad I was able get.
21:55
Speaker 4: That speaking of you know, just a hype and trying
21:59
Speaker 4: to keep the main thing the main thing. I'm going
22:02
Speaker 4: to take you back last year BB's camp. I get
22:06
Speaker 4: notes that there's this quarterback that walked on and immediately
22:09
Speaker 4: everybody kind of flocked to him when he started throwing.
22:12
Speaker 4: And that's when your name starts popping up. Uh, you know,
22:15
Speaker 4: check on this, check on Jaden O'Neil. Tell me that
22:19
Speaker 4: just kind of that process from that day to where
22:22
Speaker 4: you're you're at camp for the first time, to commitment
22:24
Speaker 4: to now building the stuff. Do you feel partially accomplished,
22:29
Speaker 4: because I mean, I know that you're a driven guy,
22:31
Speaker 4: but what what are the things that you know, when
22:34
Speaker 4: you just kind of look at the whole journey, what's like,
22:36
Speaker 4: what's next for you as far as like accomplishment, what's
22:39
Speaker 4: the next thing that you know keeps people you know,
22:42
Speaker 4: gathering around you and ohing and awe and.
22:46
Speaker 3: Just my development.
22:47
Speaker 2: I feel like that's gonna you know, help people kind
22:49
Speaker 2: of you know, kind.
22:50
Speaker 3: Of stem towards you know, towards me.
22:52
Speaker 2: My development is something I'm constantly trying to hone in,
22:55
Speaker 2: trying to you know, always get better. So I feel like,
22:57
Speaker 2: you know, I've always had the talent, but if you
22:59
Speaker 2: don't like the worth echo the word ethic, I don't
23:02
Speaker 2: feel like it's it's gonna be kind of paid off.
23:06
Speaker 2: Another thing, like when I was kind of like going
23:08
Speaker 2: to those camps, you know, visiting like the school, I
23:10
Speaker 2: feel like it was just constantly like a roller coaster,
23:13
Speaker 2: kind of like an avalanche.
23:14
Speaker 3: You know, everything just kept building.
23:15
Speaker 2: When I was able to you know, see the coaches
23:17
Speaker 2: constantly like speak with them, posting just kind of those
23:20
Speaker 2: you know, certain things, was able to reach the fan base.
23:22
Speaker 3: So of course you know I was able to see it.
23:24
Speaker 2: And then now hearing at the camp, you know, people
23:26
Speaker 2: were like it was like it was like crazy guy
23:28
Speaker 2: of like walking in the door, so like a bunch
23:30
Speaker 2: of cameras, like people like gravitating towards me. But you know,
23:33
Speaker 2: I try to stay as poised, like as I can
23:35
Speaker 2: be able to appreciate the moment. But during that time,
23:38
Speaker 2: you know, I was just like it's camp season, Like
23:40
Speaker 2: like I said before, like it was competition, So I
23:43
Speaker 2: feel like I had to like handle my business.
23:46
Speaker 1: Yeah that's what's up. That's what's up. Okay. So the
23:49
Speaker 1: season ended for you at you know in high school.
23:52
Speaker 1: How do you feel like the season went for you?
23:56
Speaker 1: And what are your goals and accomplishments is this coming season?
24:04
Speaker 3: This like this past season was like a roller coaster.
24:07
Speaker 2: A lot of stuff like went down, Like the first
24:09
Speaker 2: six games, man, a lot of we had We were
24:12
Speaker 2: like four and two in the first six games, so
24:14
Speaker 2: we you know, we saw some top talent. We were
24:16
Speaker 2: able to you know, win a couple of those games,
24:18
Speaker 2: and then like we got hit with like with like
24:21
Speaker 2: some I think it was like paperwork issues or something
24:24
Speaker 2: like that or sef like wasn't letting you know, us
24:27
Speaker 2: play because like they found something. But you know I
24:29
Speaker 2: was able to you know, come playoff time. First game,
24:32
Speaker 2: you know, I went crazy. So you know during that time,
24:36
Speaker 2: it was just I was just kind of just like
24:38
Speaker 2: just trying to just keep my faith like with the Lord.
24:40
Speaker 2: H you know, it just felt like man like why me,
24:44
Speaker 2: but you know, really just asks man, this is just
24:46
Speaker 2: part of like you know, his journey, you know, keeping
24:48
Speaker 2: my faith in the Lord or something that I was
24:50
Speaker 2: just like key to me, you know, and also like
24:53
Speaker 2: just keeping my teammates you know, gathered, you know, like together.
24:56
Speaker 2: I know some guys probably like lost faith, but I
24:58
Speaker 2: was just able to just to be there and lead
25:00
Speaker 2: my guys and you know get us to the you.
25:02
Speaker 3: Know, to the regionals. We lost.
25:03
Speaker 2: We lost it like in the regionals, but I feel like,
25:06
Speaker 2: you know, each win that we had in the playoffs,
25:07
Speaker 2: it was more and more like like the brotherhood coming together.
25:11
Speaker 2: So it was a crazy season, but you know, I
25:13
Speaker 2: was glad I was able to you know, play my
25:14
Speaker 2: teen games.
25:16
Speaker 3: You know, this season.
25:19
Speaker 4: Modeling yourself after you know, somebody that's gone in front
25:22
Speaker 4: of you is just something that's it's hard not to
25:25
Speaker 4: compare yourself to do you have a quarterback that you
25:29
Speaker 4: you know, you've seen play that's in the league right now,
25:32
Speaker 4: somebody maybe in still in college that you try to
25:34
Speaker 4: model your game after. Or is there a you know,
25:36
Speaker 4: kind of a mixture of a couple of guys.
25:39
Speaker 2: A couple quarterbacks. One at the next level of course,
25:42
Speaker 2: Segar Sanders. I've seen them throw live in person, kind
25:45
Speaker 2: of similar body type a little bit, you know, six
25:48
Speaker 2: two six, three years a little bit saw him play live.
25:50
Speaker 2: I feel like we kind of, you know, play like
25:53
Speaker 2: each other a little bit. I saw Kim Moore his
25:56
Speaker 2: his ability to like, you know, his pocket presence something
25:58
Speaker 2: that's crazy, you know, his ability to have different arm
26:02
Speaker 2: angles you know, throughout the game. Yeah, I kind of
26:04
Speaker 2: look after you know, and at the level after that
26:07
Speaker 2: NFL probably like she stricuse, you know, his intellect is
26:12
Speaker 2: you know, something that's crazy. You know, I feel like
26:13
Speaker 2: it's undervalue, you know, in this game. And you know,
26:17
Speaker 2: his ability is like to keep his faith in you know,
26:20
Speaker 2: lead his team is. Leadership is something that's crazy to me.
26:22
Speaker 2: So those are like some of the few things I
26:24
Speaker 2: look at.
26:25
Speaker 1: I love that, all right. My last question I gotta
26:27
Speaker 1: ask is you came for the Bama game, how was
26:30
Speaker 1: that environment for you?
26:32
Speaker 2: It was something crazy, like even before the game, even
26:36
Speaker 2: before the game happened, like just like when it cut
26:38
Speaker 2: all the lights off and then all the flashing lights
26:41
Speaker 2: with the fire, because I was sitting right at the
26:43
Speaker 2: exit or like or like at the entrance, yeah, to
26:46
Speaker 2: see like the players, you know, like the horse, but
26:49
Speaker 2: the it was just crazy, like with the fires. So
26:52
Speaker 2: just like the scenery even before the game even happened,
26:54
Speaker 2: was crazy. And then of course, like the game happened,
26:57
Speaker 2: defense was like just killing. After the physic killing of course,
27:01
Speaker 2: you know when when Arnold was there, he was able
27:03
Speaker 2: to you know, maintain the game before.
27:04
Speaker 3: So it was just like a cradle in the Russian
27:07
Speaker 3: I was. I was in the power for a little bit.
27:09
Speaker 2: I don't want to be too much suffocated. It was crazy, like, man,
27:17
Speaker 2: it was just crazy.
27:18
Speaker 1: So you're ready to see yourself run through that tunnel
27:20
Speaker 1: and do that exact same thing. Have those electric nights
27:24
Speaker 1: here in the sec.
27:25
Speaker 3: Yes, sir sec. Something that's big special.
27:28
Speaker 2: I kind of like just even just like just being there,
27:32
Speaker 2: I could I felt myself getting.
27:33
Speaker 3: Intense a little bit because I felt like I was
27:35
Speaker 3: about to play the game. So it was all crazy, man.
27:40
Speaker 4: J You look, you talk ball ball, ball ball. What
27:46
Speaker 4: makes j O'Neill smile outside of football? Like what what's
27:48
Speaker 4: what's the thing that you really really like to do?
27:51
Speaker 2: One thing I really liked doing is just spending time,
27:55
Speaker 2: like with my family. You only get so much time
27:58
Speaker 2: on this earth, and I feel like every second and
28:00
Speaker 2: I get to spend with my family.
28:02
Speaker 3: It's something I just you know, kind of take, you know, to.
28:05
Speaker 2: Heart outside of football, you know, I love, you know,
28:08
Speaker 2: but just watch my anime.
28:09
Speaker 3: I don't know if y'all see.
28:10
Speaker 1: You ron yep, I see it.
28:13
Speaker 3: It's like it's like other stuff, you know me. You know,
28:16
Speaker 3: that's just.
28:17
Speaker 2: Something like that I watch. You know, whenever I can
28:21
Speaker 2: like get on the game. I have like that game
28:23
Speaker 2: system down there. I have two TVs. So it's like
28:25
Speaker 2: my like my little game room. So whenever you know,
28:28
Speaker 2: I have off time, head down here and like get
28:31
Speaker 2: on the games a little bit, you know, you know,
28:33
Speaker 2: just be with my friends. I'm just like on a
28:36
Speaker 2: game with them because like someone are like out of state,
28:38
Speaker 2: so sometimes the game with them.
28:41
Speaker 3: That's about it. Really sleep too, like I'm being on sleep.
28:45
Speaker 1: Something get some sleep, Sleep, get some sleep. I'm with you, man.
28:50
Speaker 1: The good thing is is you know, in today's area,
28:52
Speaker 1: you get to hop on the game. You hop on
28:53
Speaker 1: college football with your friends that that's outside of the country.
28:56
Speaker 1: Create yourselves and be like, hey man, I'm throwing you
28:59
Speaker 1: the ball or do you just beat them all the
29:00
Speaker 1: time and be like, let me teach you how the
29:03
Speaker 1: game is supposed to be played, which is so you
29:06
Speaker 1: be cooking them on in CA on college football? Is
29:08
Speaker 1: that is that where you're cooking them at?
29:10
Speaker 3: I like sometimes I really am mad. I'm more of
29:12
Speaker 3: a Madden guy.
29:13
Speaker 2: Like the mechanics, it's like it's like different from Madden,
29:18
Speaker 2: like the way how they get like even like the
29:21
Speaker 2: the ability to like call players. It's like different, Like
29:23
Speaker 2: it don't look like Madden plays. But both games are
29:26
Speaker 2: like really good though, Like I play both. I'm more
29:28
Speaker 2: of a Madden guy.
29:29
Speaker 3: President.
29:30
Speaker 1: Who's your team?
29:32
Speaker 3: I always want, oh Madden all Madden. It depends.
29:36
Speaker 2: Just like the wide receiver Cord, I'm picking Texans. I
29:39
Speaker 2: mean you gott and the rest of that record is crazy.
29:42
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's true.
29:45
Speaker 4: It's it's it is. It's it's pretty gry. How about uh,
29:49
Speaker 4: I mean, obviously you're heading towards Oklahoma. The only pro
29:53
Speaker 4: team we got is the Thunder and they're pretty good
29:55
Speaker 4: at what they do. Uh did you do you get
29:58
Speaker 4: into basketball or any other towards also?
30:01
Speaker 3: I did so right before.
30:03
Speaker 2: I don't want to nobody call me your badwagon like
30:05
Speaker 2: I don't nobody. But before the Warriors started had that run,
30:09
Speaker 2: I was a Warriors fan back then when they had
30:11
Speaker 2: Jamar Carford, I believe so, like ye back in the day,
30:14
Speaker 2: so like before they had that run with Curry playing
30:17
Speaker 2: on them, No, I was. I was a fan before then.
30:19
Speaker 1: So well, I mean, you're you're at West, so it
30:23
Speaker 1: makes sense that that would be the team you were
30:25
Speaker 1: root for out there. I mean, if you're not, unless
30:27
Speaker 1: you're a Laker or a Clippers fan, it totally makes
30:30
Speaker 1: sense that Golden State would be your squads. I can't call
30:32
Speaker 1: you a bandwagon. I can't. Can we pick at you?
30:34
Speaker 1: But Jayden, what do you What message do you have
30:39
Speaker 1: to Sooner Nation that you would like for them to know?
30:41
Speaker 1: As you know, you continue to work here in the
30:44
Speaker 1: twenty six class before you get to campus.
30:46
Speaker 2: Being in this class, it's something you know, especially with
30:50
Speaker 2: the fan base too. I'm very appreciative of them, you know,
30:52
Speaker 2: being very supportive now cheering me on, like like, no
30:55
Speaker 2: matter what the situation is, the message I got is
30:58
Speaker 2: just I'm gonna continue to work y'all, you know, just
31:01
Speaker 2: be able to get my best effort because I know
31:03
Speaker 2: the fans like I've seen it, like I've literally seen it,
31:06
Speaker 2: like with my own eyes, Like the fan base is
31:07
Speaker 2: always there. You're always there, and you know, president in
31:10
Speaker 2: the moment, and I'm gonna be here president in the
31:12
Speaker 2: moment as well. So thank y'all for having me. Man,
31:14
Speaker 2: this is special. Thank you'all.
31:18
Speaker 1: Good stuff. Well got j O'Neill quarterback twenty six class
31:23
Speaker 1: for the sooners. Man, we appreciate you pulling up sending
31:26
Speaker 1: the message to the people as you came through Virginia weekend.
31:28
Speaker 1: What's the next when the next time you plan on
31:30
Speaker 1: being in what event do you plan on pulling up for?
31:33
Speaker 3: Shoot?
31:33
Speaker 2: I want to get the spring game, man, and then
31:36
Speaker 2: probably set up an official after that like around June.
31:40
Speaker 1: Sweet sweet, good stuff, good stuff. Well, we'll appreciate you
31:45
Speaker 1: pulling up my man. Hey, make sure it's the light
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